NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Feb. 6 -- The American Farm Bureau Federation issued the following news release: The American Farm Bureau Federation is partnering with INTL FCStone to offer Farm Bureau members exclusive discounts on FCStone's catalog of agricultural risk management tools, which range from customized commodity marketing plans to data management solutions and educational seminars and cover an extensive range of agricultural commodities, from grains and oilseeds to dairy and livestock. "As  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Feb. 5 -- The American Farm Bureau Federation issued the following news release: The third and final tranche of the USDA 2019 Market Facilitation Program assists farmers suffering from lost income as a result of the trade war with China. American Farm Bureau Federation estimates that approximately $3.5 billion is expected to be delivered to farmers in this final distribution. The following statement may be attributed to American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duval  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 -- The American Federation for Children issued the following statement by Tennessee State Director Shaka Mitchell: "The American Federation for Children is extremely disappointed to hear that Mayor Cooper has sued to stop the Education Savings Account program passed last year by the Tennessee General Assembly. "Nashville is a city where just one out of four public school students can read on grade level, and we should be giving parents every opportunity we can to ensure the  more

BRENTWOOD, Tennessee, Feb. 2 -- The American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B - Neuropsychiatric Genetics, a journal that says it provides a forum for experimental and clinical investigations of the genetic, epigenetic and protein signaling mechanisms underlying neurologic and psychiatric disorders, published research articles, including the following topics, in its December 2019 edition: ORIGINAL ARTICLES: * Hydrops fetalis in a cohort of 3,137 stillbirths and second trimester miscarriages  more

BRENTWOOD, Tennessee, Feb. 2 -- The American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B - Neuropsychiatric Genetics, a journal that says it provides a forum for experimental and clinical investigations of the genetic, epigenetic and protein signaling mechanisms underlying neurologic and psychiatric disorders, published research articles, including the following topics, in its January 2020 edition: CASE REPORTS IN DIVERSE POPULATIONS: * CHARGE syndrome in nine patients from China * Okur-Chung neurode  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Feb. 7 -- The American Property Casualty Insurance Association issued the following news release: On February 7, 1812, the largest earthquake of the 1811-1812 New Madrid sequence impacted parts of Missouri, Tennessee, Arkansas, Kentucky, and Illinois at a whopping magnitude 7.7, causing widespread damage and destruction. If a similar event were to occur, the risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide has estimated that it could produce insured losses in excess of $59 billion (2017 doll  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Feb. 7 -- The Country Music Association issued the following news release: CMA's popular international artist-focused touring series, Introducing Nashville, will bring dynamic Nashville artists Abby Anderson, Niko Moon, Cassadee Pope and Mitchell Tenpenny to the Pacific Rim in March. This Introducing Nashville lineup will visit multiple cities in Australia before stopping in Auckland, New Zealand and Tokyo, Japan. Tickets for Introducing Nashville's performances are on sal  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Feb. 5 -- The Country Music Association issued the following news release: Country Music is seeing an uptick in daily listeners according to new insights from the Country Music Association. Along with these statistics, CMA announced the launch of a brand-new Country Music consumer research dashboard exclusively available to CMA members. TRENDWATCH is a monthly snapshot of key music engagement behaviors--indicating what the Country consumer is saying and doing currently, as  more

CLARKSVILLE, Tennessee, Feb. 5 -- The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation issued the following news release: * * * - Instead of accommodating employee's sincerely-held religious beliefs as federal law requires, LIUNA union officials attempted to interrogate her about her religious beliefs * * * With free legal aid from the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, an employee of J & J Worldwide Service filed a charge with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)   more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Feb. 6 -- Freedom for All Americans issued the following news release: 35 corporations and 107 small businesses released an open letter opposing discrimination against LGBTQ Tennesseans and calling upon lawmakers to not pursue any further harmful bills this legislative session. This letter was organized by the Nashville LGBT Chamber of Commerce with support from Freedom for All Americans, GLAAD and HRC. "Our state wins financially when we encourage the most people to part  more

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, Feb. 7 -- The Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice issued the following statement by Legal Affairs Vice President Leslie Hiner on Feb. 6 regarding a lawsuit filed against the enacted Tennessee education savings account program: "This is a sad day for families in Tennessee. "When government leaders have no faith in families, that's a problem. This is the situation in Nashville and Memphis, where today, Metro Nashville, Davidson County, Metro Nashville Board of Publi  more

ARLINGTON, Virginia, Feb. 7 -- The Institute for Justice issued the following news release: * * * - Legal attack attempts to end Tennessee's Education Savings Accounts for K-12 * * * The Institute for Justice (IJ) and the Beacon Center of Tennessee announced they will intervene to defend the nation's newest educational choice program from a legal attack announced this morning by Nashville Mayor John Cooper. IJ will be joined in its legal defense by the Beacon Center. The mayor announced a l  more

STAMFORD, Connecticut, Feb. 4 -- Keep America Beautiful issued the following news release: * * * - Recycling Organizations Come Together in Memphis, Tennessee, to Address Challenges and Opportunities in a Recycling System in Transition * * * To kick off the 2020 Keep America Beautiful(R) National Conference, national nonprofit Keep America Beautiful is leading a one-day Recycling Market Development Workshop on Feb. 11, 2020 in Memphis, Tennessee, with the National Recycling Coalition and the  more

STAMFORD, Connecticut, Feb. 5 -- Keep America Beautiful issued the following news release: * * * - Iconic Community Improvement Organization Gathers Hundreds of State and Local Community Leaders for Week of Education, Inspiration, and Motivation * * * Keep America Beautiful(R), the nation's largest community improvement nonprofit organization, will host its annual Keep America Beautiful National Conference on Feb. 12-14, 2020 at The Peabody Memphis Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee. The Keep Amer  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Feb. 4 -- New Phytologist, a journal that says it features plant science and its applications, published research articles, including the following topics, in Part 1 of its March 2020 edition: Reviews: * Dual-mycorrhizal plants: their ecology and relevance * Plants make galls to accommodate foreigners: some are friends, most are foes * Of floral fortune: tinkering with the grain yield potential of cereal crops * Evolutionary processes from the perspective of flowering  more

BRENTWOOD, Tennessee, Feb. 4 -- Psycho-Oncology, a journal that says it features cancer and AIDS-related tumors, epidemiology, palliative and supportive care, psychiatry, psychology, sociology and nursing from the American Psychosocial Oncology Society and British Psycho-Oncology Society, published research articles, including the following topics, in its February 2020 edition: REVIEWS: * Experiencing and responding to chronic cancer-related fatigue: A meta-ethnography of qualitative research  more

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, Feb. 7 -- St. Jude Children's Research Hospital issued the following news release: * * * - St. Jude Research Collaborative on Membraneless Organelles drives development of a model for predicting how proteins phase separate. * * * Scientists from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and Washington University in St. Louis have established a model for predicting how proteins phase separate. The stickers-and-spacers model is a quantitative framework, applicable to many prote  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Feb. 7 -- The Tennessee Electric Cooperative Association issued the following news: More than 200 electric co-op leaders from across Tennessee were in Nashville on Tuesday, Feb. 4, asking for commonsense rules to protect the state's electric lineworkers. Over 100 individual meetings with legislators were scheduled during the Tennessee Electric Cooperative Association's 2020 Legislative Conference. When not installed properly, generation sources such as solar panels, wind   more

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, Feb. 6 -- USA Rice Federation issued the following news: Producers and industry representatives from across the mid-south gathered here last week for the 23rd Annual National Conservation Systems Cotton and Rice Conference. The day and a half-long conference featured discussions on the latest in conservation practices. Topics included rice variety updates, water management, cover crops, herbicides, trade, and much more. Dr. Steve Linscombe, director of The Rice Foundation a  more